I’m tired of people taking sides like companies give a shit about us. I wouldn’t be surprised to see five comments saying something like “you shouldn’t buy Nvidia AMD is open source” or “you should sell your card and get an amd card.”
I’d say whatever you have is fine, it’s better for the environment if you keep it for longer anyway. There are soo many people who parrot things without giving much though to an individuals situation or the complexity of a company’s behavior. Every companies job is to maximize profit while minimizing loss.
Basically if everyone blindly chose AMD over Nvidia the roles would flip and AMD would start doing the things Nvidia is doing to maintain dominance, increase profit, reduce cost and Nvidia would start trying to gain more market share from AMD by opening up, becoming more consumer friendly, competitively priced
For individuals, selling your old card and buying a new AMD card for the same price will net you with a slower card in general or if you go used there is a good chance it doesn’t work properly and the buyer ghosts you. I should know, I tried to get a used AMD card and it died every time I ran a GPU intensive game.
I also went the other way upgrading my mother’s Nvidia card with a new AMD card that was three times as expensive as her Nvidia card ($50) would be on eBay and it runs a bit slower than her Nvidia card did. She was happy about the upgrade though because I used that Nvidia card in her movie server resulting in better live video transcoding than a cheap AMD card would.
You’d be surprised it happens quite a bit, especially when your trying to help an Nvidia user with technical issues.
The problems I see people have are kinda trivial and is usually fixed by installing a package or changing a kernel parameter. Stuff you spend a few minutes researching for a half second fix. It’s like saying “Apple pages unintuitive to use? Throw out your MacBook and get a PC!”
I don’t like MacBooks but I’m not going to tell them to replace it.
A collection of folks ranging from moralizing open source fans, Wayland aficionados, and AMD fanboy. They also like to blame any Linux problem the user might be having on Nvidia use even when the user hasn’t actually mentioned Nvidia. Daughter got chlamydia? Shouldn’t have gone with Nvidia.
Both open source drivers from Nvidia and AMD have an MIT license, so what’s your point. Both firmwares are still proprietary. You have the option of Intel arc now so it’s not even a duopoly anymore.
At least the Arch people are not shilling for some corp.
I’m tired of people taking sides like companies give a shit about us. I wouldn’t be surprised to see five comments saying something like “you shouldn’t buy Nvidia AMD is open source” or “you should sell your card and get an amd card.”
I’d say whatever you have is fine, it’s better for the environment if you keep it for longer anyway. There are soo many people who parrot things without giving much though to an individuals situation or the complexity of a company’s behavior. Every companies job is to maximize profit while minimizing loss.
Basically if everyone blindly chose AMD over Nvidia the roles would flip and AMD would start doing the things Nvidia is doing to maintain dominance, increase profit, reduce cost and Nvidia would start trying to gain more market share from AMD by opening up, becoming more consumer friendly, competitively priced
For individuals, selling your old card and buying a new AMD card for the same price will net you with a slower card in general or if you go used there is a good chance it doesn’t work properly and the buyer ghosts you. I should know, I tried to get a used AMD card and it died every time I ran a GPU intensive game.
I also went the other way upgrading my mother’s Nvidia card with a new AMD card that was three times as expensive as her Nvidia card ($50) would be on eBay and it runs a bit slower than her Nvidia card did. She was happy about the upgrade though because I used that Nvidia card in her movie server resulting in better live video transcoding than a cheap AMD card would.
Who is saying to sell your card so you can buy AMD?
You’d be surprised it happens quite a bit, especially when your trying to help an Nvidia user with technical issues.
The problems I see people have are kinda trivial and is usually fixed by installing a package or changing a kernel parameter. Stuff you spend a few minutes researching for a half second fix. It’s like saying “Apple pages unintuitive to use? Throw out your MacBook and get a PC!”
I don’t like MacBooks but I’m not going to tell them to replace it.
A collection of folks ranging from moralizing open source fans, Wayland aficionados, and AMD fanboy. They also like to blame any Linux problem the user might be having on Nvidia use even when the user hasn’t actually mentioned Nvidia. Daughter got chlamydia? Shouldn’t have gone with Nvidia.
When there are only two options and one is nearly a monopoly, do you still think there’s no good side?
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Both open source drivers from Nvidia and AMD have an MIT license, so what’s your point. Both firmwares are still proprietary. You have the option of Intel arc now so it’s not even a duopoly anymore.
nvidia-open license
AMD driver license
Way to sidestep the question. I was talking about market dominance not licenses.
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Why do you keep linking the creative commons copywrite websiter? It’s not music, a movie, or a piece of art.
I’ve given up on whatever you’re talking about because I don’t think you even know what you’re talking about.
That’s actually smart 👍